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Anies Baswedan Fears Meikarta will Ruin Jakarta’s Water Supply

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan uttered his regard and fear of a Meikarta housing plan and a outcome on a peculiarity of Jakarta’s categorical H2O supply, Citarum River.

The Meikarta housing project is now underneath construction during Cikarang, West Java.

“This has grabbed a courtesy of Jakarta’s provincial supervision given there is now a large Meikarta housing plan being built there,” pronounced Anies during a BPK domicile on Monday, Feb 18.

According to Anies, a position of a housing plan is within tighten closeness to a west H2O thoroughfare that passes Kalimalang in East Java. This alone increases a possibility of Meikarta contaminating a Citarum River that reserve 81 percent of Jakarta residents’ daily H2O needs.

However, a Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) formerly presented a analysis news of Jakarta and West Java’s administration on handling a CItarum River. Their analysis found that a wickedness turn during Citarum is good over a limit.